My little cottage is feeling so cute and cozy now! I LOVE IT! This week I turned my attention to the Pantry. The pantry is a super tiny entryway between the kitchen and the back door. It already had shelves built-in on one side, but the other side was an ugly mess of exposed pipes, rough unpainted surfaces, a circuit breaker box, holes, and the water heater. Pretty much anything I did would be a vast improvement!

The first thing I did was give it several coats of paint; painting over all the metal pipes, rough surfaces, and boxes so they blended in to the wall more. Then I took the wooden shelf that I had originally built for the bathroom, and fit it into the corner where the circuit breaker box was. It fit perfectly into the space with shelves above and below, and I still had safe access for the box.

Next, I built-in a ring of shelves around the top of the ceiling, circling the whole space, similar to what I had already done in the bathroom and bedroom. After that, I constructed a small wall to hide the water heater, with a door on front, so you could still get to it if needed.

It’s not the most glamorous room in my cottage, but so much better than it was before! Now it’s organised, functional, and no longer the hideous eyesore it once was.